Photography

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Joseph Nicephore Niepce

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invented photographic process, latent image, not acknowledged

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William Henry Talbot

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“photographic drawing” first to make a photograph on paper

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Louis Jacques Maudi Daguerre

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invents “Daguerreotype” exposure took 8-15 min. Polished silver

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Margaret Julia Cameron

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Calcutta, to secret service parents. Daughters gave her a camera and she photographed high society people

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David Octavius Hill

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commissioned to paint over 400 heads, instead used camera, did the compositional work with R.Adamson

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Robert Adamson

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worked with David O. Hill, did the technical work

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Mathew B Brady

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worked in nyc, captured the civil war, then the government did not want to buy his negatives

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Alexander Gerdner

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worked for Brady, made Rogues? exhibit

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Timothy O’Sullivan

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apprentice for Mathew Brady, photographed the civil war, then got commissioned to photo the American Western frontier, chief photographer for US treasury

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Roger Fenton

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British, photoed soldiers, Crimean war,

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Frank Meadow Sutcliffe

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Photoed lots of boats

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Eugene Atget

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Loved photographing Paris

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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French photographer and painter, he is most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the century. Life magazine too.

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Lewis Wickes Hine

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American photographer. Camera was research tool and instrument for social reform. Documented child labor, documented the building of empire state building, worked for red cross in depression,

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August Sander

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German. Photoed real people in their jobs, ie baker and farmer

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Bill Brandt

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british photographer and photojournalist, high-contrast images of British society and distorted nudes and landscapes,

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Dorothea Lange

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American. Depression-era work for farm security administration. Humanized the tragedies, peoples faces

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Walker Evans

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worked for Farm Security Administration during great depression, lots of portraits, worked in south

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Bernice Abbott

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best known for b and w of new york city architecture and urban design in the 1930s, started with man ray.

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Brassai

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)“I invent nothing, I imagine everything” also a sculptor, worked in Paris. The pic with the man and woman in café with mirrors.

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Robert Capa

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photographed 5 wars, Spanish civil, 2nd sino-jap., WWII, 1948 arab-Israeli, 1st Indochina war. Famous DDay pics

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Weegee

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he was connected to a police radio, and went to the calls. Used infrared lights.

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Paul Strand

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American, helped est. photo as art form in 20th century, pic of woman with “blind” sign

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Lisette Model

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born in Austria, moved to Usa. Happy fat woman on the beach

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

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was French, father of modern photojournalism, 35 mm format. “street photography”, worked for lots of journals all over the world

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Robert Doisneau

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French, noted for frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life. Lots of children’s street culture

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William Eugene Smith

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American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid WWII pics. Worked for Life

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William Klein

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had high contrast with many blurred out faces, lots of children closeups

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Elliot Erwitt

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born in paris moved to USA when young. b and w candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings, master of the “indecisive momement”,

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Nan Goldin

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color pictures, documented grunge, highly sexual, did a series ‘in my hotel room’

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Martin Parr

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British documentary photographer and photojournalist. His photographic projects take a critical look at modern society, specifically consumerism, foreign travel and tourism, motoring, family and relationships, and food.

Parr is probably best known for his photography at New Brighton, Merseyside in the 1980s. His use of high saturation colour in photography produces some, at first glance boring and subdued images, though when you look a little deeper into them and the history behind them they are highly profound.

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Edward J. Steichen

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born in Luxemburg, moved to US in 1900. painter > fashion >documentary. Did portraits and landscapes, extremely painterly. In with the Linked Ring and Pictorialism (1902) ‘Family of Men’ exhibition (1952) – love, life, and death. Shown in 69 countries. Took pictures of Rodin

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Took pictures of modernity. Shows advanced water parks, and transportation. He also shows the change in mindset in that people were at ease with showing more of their body in bathing suits and such.
Took a lot of “objective” shots of his wife which showed a real picture. Did not use weird angles or lighting to hide or accentuate things but photographed them as they were. Pictures of her hands and legs.

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Cecil Beaton

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He made sure his subjects were beautifully photographed. Used lighting and costume to make his subjects become the utmost beauty. Used extravagance in his photos. Made elaborate scenes.

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Georgia o keeffe

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Painter associated with American southwest

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Paul Strand

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american photographer and filmmaker, modernist photographer

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Philip Hausman

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Took a famous photo of Einstein. Also took the famous photo of Dali (Atomica) with everything suspended in the air. Took lots of surreal shots.

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Diane Arbus

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Took a lot of pictures of transvestites. Also took pictures of freaks. Jewish giant, carnival freaks.

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Andy Warhol

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Pop art! To produce his silkscreens, Warhol made photographs or had them made by his friends and assistants. These pictures were mostly taken with a specific model of Polaroid camera that Polaroid kept in production especially for Warhol. This photographic approach to painting and his snapshot method of taking pictures has had a great effect on artistic photography.

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Richard Avedon

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had a very successful beginning to his career as fashion photographer and then moved to more fine art photography. Daughters of the Revolution pic where one girl is backwards, lots of portraits

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Arnold Newman

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wanted to be a painter but did documentary photos, did a collage of andy Warhol. Conscious attempts to shoot painters and the idea of their images.

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Cindy Sherman

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did self portraits based on how women were portrayed in film/photo. Didn’t use names, only ‘film still #_’

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Annie Liebovitz

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involved with Rolling Stone, did fashion/portraits

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Vaclav Jirasek

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Vaclav Jirasek makes staged portraits that use symbols to talk about the importance of the individual and his or her spiritual nature. He works with large format cameras (13 x 18 cm. to 24 x 30 cm.) and makes only contact prints, so the viewing experience is intense and intimate. Sometimes he shoots through a piece of gauze or some textured glass, which gives the image a heightened sense of mystery. Most of the figures are caught at the height of the gesture-they are very aware of the camera and the props they carry act as symbols-which makes the image walk a line between melodrama and deep psychological meaning. From 1980-1990 he was a member of Brno Bratrstvo (brotherhood) which was a community formed to combat "feelings of emptiness, hopelessness and isolation at the end of the twentieth century." They came together not to make collaborative work, but to discuss ideas and values that they had in common, which they must have felt were not dominant in the culture at large. The content of this work draws on myth, religion, ritual, magic and expression of the inner energy and sensitivity of the individual.

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Joseph Sudek

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he fascination with light and mood was however to permeate his lifetime's work, with brilliant shafts of sunlight penetrating the dusty gloom of St Vitus Cathedral (his use of light in these interiors reminiscent of the great master of the platinum print, Frederick Evans).

His use of a soft-focus lens to produce diffused highlights and a mood of romanticism, Sudek was soon to renounce such 'artistic' effects, becoming a part of the 'new wave' of modern photography in Europe.

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Alvin Longdon Coburn

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pictorial movement, did a lot of landscapes, Vortograph, ‘pictures through a kaleidoscope’ = obscured, blurred images that reflected cubism.

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Ansel Adams

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American. 1916 – yearly pictures of Yosemite

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Edward Weston

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portraits in CA > NY > Mexico (friends with artists of the revolution) bodies, pic of a pepper

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Minor White

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Post-WWI. Spiritual, Cool, zen picks, American, studied Botany, “When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence” wanted the public to accept photography as an art, shot mostly in the 50's.

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Bernd and Hilla Becher

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photographed industrial buildings, blatant change from prior landscapes. "describing style" - little emotion or usefulness, it just showcases what's there, what looks good. they work in series.

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Andreas Gursky

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Big pics, industrial spaces with people and machines, highly textured

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Thomas Ruff

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Studied in Germany with Hilla and Bernd, Nasa Prints, developed serial photography, did night skys and interior of buildings in germany, obscured nudes. non-emotional, descriptions

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Thomas struth

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German photographer, detailed cityscapes, asian jungles and family portraits

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Lukas Jasansky and Martin Polak

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- Czech, wrote some stupid essay

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Jeff Wall

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staged photography - works digitally so you can't tell what's real or imposed.

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Frantisek Drtikol

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epic photographs, nudes and portraits, photographed like paintings, 1930s

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EJ Bellocq

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nudes of fat French women

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Imogen Cunningham

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American known for her photographs of nudes, botanicals, and industry – later took many photographs of hands and for Vanity Fair of actors without makeup

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Martin Munkacsi

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moved to u.s,. picked unexpected angles

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Man Ray

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American spent most time in Paris – Dada and Surrealist – invented solarization and rayographs

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Hans Bellmer

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– surrealist photographer with lifesized pubescent dolls aimed against perfect body in Nazi culture

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Bill Brandt

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British photographer high-contrast images of British society and distorted nudes/landscapes

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Helmut Newton

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after serving in Australian military, became fashion photographer – had partnership with Talbot – work appeared in Vogue (erotic, stylized, sado-masochistic, and fetish) – “Big Nudes”

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Jan Saudek

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Czech, personal erotic freedom and corrupt political pics – hand-tinted portrayal of painted dream worlds with nude figures

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Ivan Pinkava

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mainly nude photographs depicting either sickly or bald figures

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Joel-Peter Witkin

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deals with death, corpses, and outsiders such as dwarfs and trannies (surrealist)

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Alexander Rodchenko

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Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

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Jaromir Funke

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Funke was a leading figure in Czech photography in the 1920s and 30s. In 1924 he, Josef Sudek and Adolf Schneeberger founded the Czech Photographic Society. Funke headed the photography department at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava and was editor of the journal Fotografický obzor (Photographic Horizons) for several years.

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Jaroslav Rossler

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he would photograph simple objects against a stark background of black and white, or use long exposures to picture hazy cones and spheres of light. Czech

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Les Krims

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conceptualist photographer living in Buffalo, New York. He is noted for his carefully arrange fabricated photographs (called "fictions"), various candid series, a satirical edge, dark humor, and long-standing criticism of what he describes as leftist twaddle. Oddly manipulated nudes.